Vision
Create a collective investment opportunity focused on land restoration and regenerative stewardship supported through outdoor recreational events and educational workshops.
What We’ve Built
In 2015 we purchased a 35 acre dump in the dry, forgotten chaparral foothills of Riverside county and began the arduous process of restoration. Over the course of the past eight years, we pulled thousands of loads of garbage, created swales to improve aquifers, built soil, planted pioneer species, and made this a home for our small mission-driven community. The once abandoned dump is now a thriving campground and event center, voted in the top ten campgrounds on HipCamp in all of California for the past three years.
We’ve also met some pretty amazing people along the way. Those people inspired us to devise a business plan that would fulfill unmet needs in the market while enabling us to support and grow every aspect of our mission.
Community Based on Intention & Contractual Agreement
Intentional community is not something one is born into, but rather something that one chooses. A community based on relationships and partnerships has two huge challenges standing in the way of its success and both must be consciously addressed. Accountability is in earning one's keep, and agreeability is finding gratitude for how others both directly and indirectly play a significant role in our lives.
Our goals are to improve how human communities relate to each other and nature.
Some of the things that we've learned (and are always relearning) is that we all want to be heard and also we want to be given the benefit of the doubt. This is how we give and earn respect and trust. Those who can learn to respect and trust one another build loyalty and collective resilience. The work is to listen with full attention and an open mind; speak with clarity, sincerity and compassion.
Most relationships run on assumption. Intention is knowing what you want and agreeing to it before commitments are made. A contract not only outlines intentions, it also creates incentives for meeting them and consequences for not meeting them. All residents of EcoShire contractually agree to maintaining community health, safety and positive growth.
Our contract as a community is also based around regenerative agriculture, land restoration and connecting people with themselves, their tribe, their values and Nature.
The rule of thumb is: "is it good enough for now, and safe enough to try..."
